Ampère\'s law

Ampère's law

 
noun Physics.
the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
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named after A. M. Ampère
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Ampère's law is always a great word to know.
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the property of matter by which it retains its state of rest or its velocity along a straight line so long as it is not acted upon by an external force
the property of a system that diminishes when the system does work on any other system, by an amount equal to the work so done
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